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I call BS on the pouring rain and snow: wet, frozen leaves are not blowing anywhere. You would get more hours raking and thus more income if you were not usin
by frabbit 8y ago
I call BS on the pouring rain and snow: wet, frozen leaves are not blowing anywhere.
You would get more hours raking and thus more income if you were not using leaf blowers: you are externalizing costs to the detriment of both your own income and the rest of us.
- grawprog 8y agoNah...a commercial leaf blower makes frozen leaves fly really good. We used one of the stihl ones. With a rake you lift large chunks of frozen solid frozen organic matter that you have to try and rake away a layer at a time. I'm telling anyone that doubts it to go try it. A whole apartment complex worth of frozen wet leaves. You've got 3 hours to get it all done before moving to the next site. Try it. Do it one day with a rake. Then head back next week late autumn after a good wind and rain storm and do it again with a leaf blower and see how much faster and easier it goes.
- dingaling 8y agoWet leaves stick to paved / metalled surfaces such that rakes & brooms ride right over them. Without a blower you're down on your knees lifting them with your fingers. Been there, done that. It's odd to see suburbanites raging against blower noise whilst just shrugging at traffic noise as 'necessary'. At least blowers don't operate between midnight and 05:00...
- brokenmachine 8y agoI see much more necessity in 24/7 transport than in leaf blowers.